THIS WAS THE BOOK BY WHICH REICHSFÜHRER-SS HEINRICH HIMMLER SET THE STANDARD OF RACIAL STUDIES WITHIN THE SS ORGANIZATION! PUBLISHED 6 YEARS PRIOR TO THE NAZI SEIZURE

The 6-½ x 9 inch, 310 pages hardcover book with 445(!) photos plus a fold-out chart in the back was written by Fritz Kern, a medical Pro-fessor at the university of Bonn, Germany. It was published 1927 by J.F.Lehmann Publishing House in München (Munich), Germany. Except for a minor water damage on the first two pages this is a very nice copy of the rare first edition. The author goes into great detail about the origins and genealogy of the Germans, he finds (or con-structs) a lot of evidence that the German people descend from only the, what he calls, most noble lines, of course mostly the Nordic (Aryan) race but Prof. Kern also finds connections with the ancient Greek and Romans. His book inspired a lot of other authors who wrote about racial studies, such as Dr. Hans F.K. Günther who became the great authority in this field in the Third Reich. SS-Obergruppenführer Walter Darre´, one of the Nazi leading ideologists referred to this book in his book Das Bauerntum als Lebensquell der nordischen Rasse, published 1935. But historically much more important is that this book was the main reference used by the SS to set their standards on racial purity, the "superiority" of the Nordic Aryan race, in compa-rison the "inferiority" of other races, (the author names especially the Jews and Slaws) and so on. The author does not make any attempts to hide his anti-Semitism and less than a decade after his book was pub-lished the SS brought his studies to a whole different level!

examples of the "racial mixture" in Englands upper class

a French caricature from the turn of the 19th century shows the German as the ugly race. In comparison to him the handsome French